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House Bill Offered
To 'Repeal' Truman's
Security News Order
Legislation to wipe out Presi
dent Truman's controversial se
curity order was on tap at both
ends of Capitol Hill today after
Representative Bakewell, Repub
lican, of Missouri, introduced a
companion bill to that laid before
the Senate last week by Republi
can Senators Bricker, Ohio: Cape
hart, Indiana, and Ferguson,
Michigan.
As the Bakewell measure was
presented, Senator Bricker, in a
Senate speech, urged quick con
gressional action, saying that Con
gress has authority to cancel the
new restrictions on Government
Information, which he described
as “an insult to the Congress, to
the world’s best press and to a
free people.”
Senator Bricker said that the
order parallels news censorship
exercised in Russia, Argentina,
India and Hitler Germany, and
denounced it as “vicious.”
Kenton rroposes nan.
Senator Benton, Democrat, of
Connecticut took the Senate floor
this afternoon to urge appoint
ment of "peoples’ advocates” in
the various Government depart
ments whose jobs would be "to
fight as hard to release informa
tion as some officials have been
known to fight to suppress it.”
The Connecticut Senator, who
fought unsuccessfully for depart
mental reform along similar lines
in the State Department when he
was Assistant Secretary, said his
proposal was prompted by Presi
dent Truman’s recent security
order. The President’s order, he
Raid, meets only one side of the
problem.
“The other side of the problem,”
Senator Benton said, “is the prob
lem of getting to the American
people the information they need
to make intelligent decisions. The
presumption should always be on
the side of full and prompt public
disclosure. Unhappily this is all
too seldom the presumption in
practice.”
Hits “Restricted” Category.
The Senator recommended total
elimination of the present “re
stricted” category applied to many
Government documents. He de
scribed the classification as an
“absurdity” and said it was often
“carelessly handled" and “invited
sloppy decisions in marginal
cases.”
Earlier, Representative Talle,
Republican, of Iowa, told the
House it is significant that
“the lid of secrecy is being clamped
down even as congressional com
mittees are sifting charges of cor
ruption in the Truman adminis
tration.”
One of the strongest protests
against the order has come from
managing editors of papers using
the Associated Press.
The order is designed to keep
Recret information having a bear
ing on the security of the Nation.
President Truman has denied
that it is tinged with censorship.
Kadio News Directors
Call for Passage of Bill
MACON, Ga„ Oct. 3 (JP).—The
National Association of Radio
News Directors has asked Congress
for speedy action on a bill which
would nullify President Truman’s
order authorizing Federal civilian
agencies to withhold information
for security reasons.
Ben Chatfield of WMAZ of Ma
con, president of the news direc
tors, sent messages to Congress
men yesterday urging passage of
the Bricker - Capehart - Ferguson
bill.
Mr. Chatfield wrote the Presi
dent last week that radio news
directors recognize the need for
military security, but he said “no
peace-loving American newsman
will do anything to void that se
curity.”
Interchangeable Rail Axles
The first freight train using
Interchangeable axles to compen
sate for differences in Spanish
and French gage widths, recently
crossed the Spanish-French bor
der at Port Bou-Cerbere.
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j Texan Embraces Islam to Wed Egyptian Dancer, Met in Paris
By the Auociated Pren
PARIS, Oct. 3. — Shepphard
King HI, wealthy young Texan,
said today he would become a
Moslem in order to marry an
Egyptian dancer, Samia Gamal.
The 6-foot-3, red-haired Texan
said he proposed marriage to the
pretty, 27-year-old dancer and
movie actress "only a lew hours
after I met her."
Mr. King, 26, from Houston and
Dallas, came to Paris with his
sister Patricia September 18. That
night they went to the Lido night
club on the Champs Elysees, a
few yards from their Claridge Ho
tel.
“I saw this beautiful girl danc
ing with another man, and I tried
to figure out how to meet her and
finally sent a bottle of champagne
over to her table,” Mr. King said.
Escort Irritated.
“The man with her didn’t like
it a bit, and didn’t #ant to open
the bottle. She insisted, and fin
ally invited my sister and me
over to her table. I found out she
was also staying at the Claridge
Hotel. This was about 3 a.m.
“Back at the hotel, about 6
a.m., I guess, I proposed to her.
I guess she thought I was just a
wild American and a little tight,
but that day I bought her a ring,
and so we became engaged.”
Mr. King said they would be
married in a Moslem ceremony in
Cairo in December and then be
married again in Texas.
Mr. King said he and Samai,
who has danced before King Fa
rouk a few times—for example,
last year, at Deauville during the
King’s vacation in Prance—had
investigated the possibility of get
ting married in a mosque in Paris.
Finds Conversion Easy.
"But we found the formalities
would take too long. Samai is
going to Cairo tomorrow to make
a motion picture. And I’m going
to Rome tomorrow on the rest of
my vacation and fly back to the
States October 17. I will go to
Cairo early in December.”
Mr. King says he has a little
oil property himself, but that his
main job is looking after the se
curities and real estate of his
I
House Approves Funds For Gl Death Benefits
By tlw As»ociat»d Frau
The House Appropriations Com
mittee today approved an imme
diate allotment of $5 million to
pay the $10,000 death indemities
approved this year for servicemen
killed in action.
The death benefits, payable over
a period of 120 months, are for
beneficiaries of «men of all
branches of the service who lost
their lives while in uniform. They
are in lieu of the insurance pre
viously offered to men in service
at small cost and amount to
$10,000 free life insurance.
The Appropriations Committee
said the money is needed at once
because payments to an estimated
12,000 beneficiaries are being held
up.•
mother and grandmother. It
isn’t difficult to become a Moslem,
he says.
"You just stand up and drink a
cup of Turkish coffee, or some
thing, before a high priest, and
then sign a statement that you’re
a Moslem.”
Mr. King said he was raised as
an Episcopalian.
She Abides by Contract.
Mr. King said he and Samai
would marry even more quickly
except that she had signed the
contract for a movie in Egypt.
“She turned down, because of
me, an offer to substitute for the
late Maria Montez in a picture
being made in Rome,” said Mr.
King, who was divorced from his
first wife in February, 1950.
"Samia may do some films in
the States,” he added.
"We have no definite plans.
She’s very eager to see the States.”
Mr. King said it was really lovi
at first sight.
"I didn’t even know who she
was when I first saw her. We’ve
been together ever since,” he said.
Nation Urgently Needs Bankers'
Leadership, Cornell Head Says
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 3—Cornell
University’s president told the
Nation’s bankers today the coun
try urgently needs their leadership
to avoid dangers ahead both at
home and abroad.
Deane W. Malott warned some
7,000 members of the American
Bankers Association that "these
are not times for traditional se
dateness.”
He addressed the 77th annual
ABA Convention which closes to
day with election of officers.
Roanoke Man Elected.
C. Francis Cocke of Roanoke,
Va., was slated to succeed James
E. Shelton of Los Angeles as pres
ident. W. Harold Brenton, pres
ident of the State Bank of Des
Moines, Iowa, was reported the
unanimous choice of the nomi
nating committee for the vice
presidential post vacated by Mr.
Cocke.
"Storm signals are flying in the
very financial structure of this
Nation and the future of the world
is literally on your doorstep,” Dr.
Malott told the bankers.
Cites Extravagance.
No banker, he said "would al
low any customer to get into the
position of our Federal Govern
ment, living extravagantly and
wastefully beyond its means, fos
tering inflation, borrowing in
creasingly and wastefully consum
ing the Nation’s raw material
resources.”
The Cornell president said the
Government is adding new civilian
employes at the rate of about one
every 43 seconds, day and night,
week in and week out, while
nearly one in every four persons
of the total population is regularly
receiving a Federal check for
services, relief, pensions or parti
cipation in agricultural programs.
It's a Flying Ball,
Not a Saucer, But
Skepticism Remains
By the Associated Press
HOGANSBURG, N. Y., Oct. 3.—
Now it’s a flying ball, not saucer.
Four residents claimed they
saw a small propeller-driven, ball
shaped flying machine land in a
farm field yesterday, then take off
and vanish.
But authorities on both sides of
the nearby Canadian border were
skeptical.
All described the ball as about
4 feet in diameter, apparently
made of rubber or plastic, with a
propeller shaft protruding from
the top. It had no markings, they
said.
In Washington, Air Force and
Army spokesmen said they knew
nothing about such a contraption.
In Ottawa, A. D. McLean, con
troller of Canadian civil aviation,
said: “I don’t know of any Ca
nadian machine that corresponds
to that description. Fantastic is
all I can say.”
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